[alsa-devel] alsa-lib 1.0.21a release

[Thierry Vignaud]

Tony Vroon <tony at linx.net> writes:

> On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 14:51 +0200, Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
> > I made a quick release 1.0.21a of the alsa-lib package to fix 
> > regression for the configuration parsing (makes some device names 
> > unavailable).
>
> Could you stick to numeric versions if possible please. Arbitrary
> postfixes like "a" or "b" are hard to express in the versioning scheme
> we use on ebuilds.
> This could be unique to portage, but I wanted to speak up in case it
> affects others as well. 1.0.21.1 may fit your "newer then 1.0.21; but
> not quite 1.0.22" needs.

I've complained about this for years...